US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Sept. 16 for "Method for manufacturing glass panel unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,197, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method for manufacturing glass panel unit" was invented by Takeshi Shimizu (Osaka, Japan), Masataka Nonaka (Osaka, Japan), Haruhiko Ishikawa (Osaka, Japan), Eiichi Uriu (Osaka, Japan), Kazuya Hasegawa (Osaka, Japan), Tasuku Ishibashi (Ishikawa, Japan) and Hiroyuki Abe (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a glass panel unit includes a glue arrangement step, a pillar placement step, an assembly forming step, a bonding step, an evacuation step, and a sealing step. The evacuation step reduces p...